This piece is a longread with a wide range of links to “stories of solitude-seeking, mountain-climbing, jungle-running women adventurers,” including many that were new to me.
There She Goes: A Reading List on Women Adventurers
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Posts Tagged ‘Thoughts’
Women Who Dared
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, #LadyAdventurers, inspiration, longreads, Thoughts on April 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Getting Fresh
Posted in Food and..., tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, bread, Thoughts on April 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
When my mother asked for Christmas ideas, I put bread pans on the list (I use these). Sure, I have two, I thought, but with four I could double the recipe and make bread half as often.
Thanks to pandemic scheduling, that Christmas dream came true this Easter:)
The pans were put to good use today (thanks, Mom!), and we are now the happy owners of four loaves currently cooling in the kitchen.
I doubled my standard recipe and it appears to be a success. Great news, not least because there were a couple of moments along the way where things could have gone off the rails.
First, the doubled amounts almost overwhelmed my 6-quart KitchenAid. It was a lot to mix. The good news is that the new batch of flour is performing better than last year’s flour, which needed (heh) twice the kneading time to build any gluten at all.
Second, and most dangerously/amusingly, I used new yeast. The dough rose beautifully but much faster than expected. The last batch took two hours for the first rise. I checked today’s batch after an hour and had to laugh. The dough was twice the size it should have been and the container’s lid was bulging up with the sort of vigor I expect from active volcanoes or chest-bursting aliens. Releasing the pressure was an exercise in risk management, but I got it done.
Of course, I also made minor adjustments to the process throughout. As one does.
So, fresh yeast, fresh flour, and a fresh take on an old recipe. And now it’s time to see what Mr Man thinks of the results!
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The Light of Longer Days
Posted in Favorites, Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, garden, home, Spring, Thoughts, violets on April 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We have our first flowers in the backyard. Violets, small and brightly colored, peeking up through the felled branches and unkillable Creeping Charlie and pine litter.
I know that many of you have had green grass and flowers for weeks now, but not so in my neighborhood.
Here, I wait. And watch. And finally, the light of longer days helps the first amethyst petals brave an unpredictable spring.
Welcome, little ones.
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The Real Things
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 14, 2023| 1 Comment »
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Going Places
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, writing on April 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
— Albert Einstein
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Define Success
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, Fiction, success, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Success is not about winning a competition. It’s about making a contribution.
— Adam Grant
Takers aim to be better than others. Givers strive to bring out the best in others. The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.
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What May Be
Posted in Science!, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, climate change, science, Thoughts, writing on April 11, 2023| 2 Comments »
What will the world look, feel and sound like by 2100? For those of us who imagine possible futures, the graphics in this article may be helpful.
Climate change is forcing map makers to redraw the world
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Past Is Future
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, genre fiction, history, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »
What did the futurologists of a century ago think our era would be like? And how close will today’s predictions be in a hundred years?
See predictions for 2023 from 1923 newspapers
“Watch-size radio telephones will keep everybody in communication with the ends of the earth,” they added, hitting the nail on the head.
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Be A Unique Egg, Not A Perfect One
Posted in Holidays, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, Easter, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on April 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »
May you have a creative and happy Easter!
Ukrainian newcomers teaching the art of pysanka ahead of Easter
“I think that the main thing for the artists is to show their feelings, express their feelings, with the lines and with the colours and with the style they’re using. When you will be focusing only on the process and just your aim will be to get the perfect pysanka, at the end you can lose something. You have to look inside—what you have inside—what you want to show in your piece. Maybe your feelings, maybe your sadness, maybe your happiness, something to share with people. And you can show it on the surface of pysanka. This is the most important. And we don’t need ten perfect pysankas, we need ten unique pysankas with unique feelings on it.
— Oksana, Ukrainian who came to Canada in 2022, at a pysanky-making workshop in Ottawa
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Whee!
Posted in Likes, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts on April 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
― Bill Watterson
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